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Radar-Assisted Beam Management Framework for mmWave NTNs: Overhead Reduction and Physical Layer Security Application

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Pith's one-line read Radar sensing limits beam candidates in mmWave NTNs, cutting overhead and enabling security against unintended users.

desk verdict Radar-assisted beam pruning for mmWave NTNs is a practical integration, but the PLS simulation numbers rest on uncompared figures that weaken the main performance claims. read the letter →

arxiv 2606.00277 v1 pith:BM2VNHQE submitted 2026-05-29 eess.SP

Bora Bozkurt , Cevdet Tosun , Mehmet Nuri Akinci , Ali Gorcin , Ibrahim Hokelek , Mehmet Kemal Ozdemir This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

The paper proposes a radar-assisted beam selection framework for millimeter-wave non-terrestrial networks that uses angle-of-departure and distance estimates to reduce the number of beams that must be tested. A probabilistic analysis derives the statistics of worst-case overhead under Gaussian estimation errors. The framework is extended to physical layer security by using radar to detect passive targets and directing beams to suppress their received power.

What carries the argument

Radar-assisted beam candidate restriction based on angle-of-departure and distance estimates, reused for null-steering in the security application.

What would settle it

Real-world measurements of beam selection latency in a mmWave NTN with actual radar estimation errors that deviate from the Gaussian model.

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Core claim

The central claim is that radar-derived spatial information can both shrink the beam search space for lower overhead and provide the location data needed to null signals toward unintended users, with simulations showing unintended power below -135 dBm and an extra 2 dB gain for legitimate users.

Load-bearing premise

The probabilistic overhead analysis holds only under idealized Gaussian errors in radar estimates of angle and distance.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • The set of beams to be swept is limited to those consistent with the radar estimates, lowering overhead.
  • The worst-case overhead admits a probabilistic characterization under Gaussian error in the estimates.
  • Physical layer security is achieved by treating radar-detected passive targets as unintended users and minimizing power delivered to them.
  • Legitimate users receive an additional beamforming gain of roughly 2 dB in the evaluated scenarios.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The approach may scale to multi-satellite constellations if radar information can be shared across platforms.
  • Hardware co-design of radar and communication arrays could further reduce the overhead by improving estimation accuracy.
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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes a radar-assisted beam selection framework for mmWave NTNs that restricts candidate beams using radar-derived AoD and distance estimates, derives a probabilistic approximation for worst-case overhead under Gaussian estimation errors, and extends the framework to physical-layer security by detecting passive unintended users, with simulations claiming unintended-user power suppression below -135 dBm and an extra ~2 dB beamforming gain for legitimate users.

Significance. If the simulation claims can be substantiated with explicit baselines and parameter details, the work could provide a practical method for overhead reduction and PLS in NTNs; the probabilistic overhead analysis supplies theoretical grounding that is a positive feature.

major comments (1)
  1. [Simulation results (PLS application)] Simulation results for the PLS application: the claims that unintended-user power is suppressed below -135 dBm and an additional ~2 dB beamforming gain is attained for legitimate users are presented without any baseline method (e.g., exhaustive search, hierarchical codebook, or conventional NTN beam management), without stated transmit power, path-loss model, carrier frequency, NTN altitude, or definition of “additional,” rendering the headline performance and security benefits impossible to evaluate.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address the single major comment below and agree that additional details are required to allow proper evaluation of the PLS simulation claims.

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  1. Referee: Simulation results for the PLS application: the claims that unintended-user power is suppressed below -135 dBm and an additional ~2 dB beamforming gain is attained for legitimate users are presented without any baseline method (e.g., exhaustive search, hierarchical codebook, or conventional NTN beam management), without stated transmit power, path-loss model, carrier frequency, NTN altitude, or definition of “additional,” rendering the headline performance and security benefits impossible to evaluate.

    Authors: We agree that the presented simulation results for the PLS application do not include explicit baseline comparisons or the full set of simulation parameters, which limits independent evaluation. In the revised manuscript we will expand the simulation section (currently Section IV) to add direct comparisons against exhaustive search and conventional NTN beam management. We will also state the transmit power, path-loss model, carrier frequency, NTN altitude, and explicitly define the reference against which the “additional” ~2 dB beamforming gain is measured. These additions will allow the claimed suppression below -135 dBm and the legitimate-user gain to be properly assessed. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: framework proposal and simulations are independent of self-referential inputs

full rationale

The paper proposes a radar-assisted beam management framework for mmWave NTNs, derives a probabilistic approximation for worst-case overhead under Gaussian AoD/distance error, and reports simulation outcomes for PLS (unintended user power below -135 dBm and ~2 dB legitimate-user gain). No load-bearing equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the provided text that would reduce these results to the inputs by construction. The analysis and simulations are presented as external validation steps rather than tautological re-statements, making the derivation self-contained against the stated assumptions.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 1 assumptions · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only view yields minimal ledger entries; the sole explicit modeling choice is the Gaussian error assumption under idealized conditions.

assumptions (1)
  • domain assumption Idealized conditions hold for the probabilistic overhead analysis
    Stated as the setting for deriving worst-case overhead statistics under Gaussian error.

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Fast and low-overhead beam management is a critical requirement for the practical deployment of non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) operating at millimeter-wave and higher frequencies. In this paper, we propose a radar-assisted beam selection framework for NTNs that limits the set of candidate beams by utilizing spatial sensing information such as the angle-of-departure (AoD) and distance estimations. To provide theoretical insight into the expected worst-case overhead, we conduct a probabilistic analysis under idealized conditions, where an approximation of the worst-case beam selection overhead is proposed and its statistics are derived under Gaussian error. Additionally, the proposed framework is applied to a physical-layer security (PLS) scenario by leveraging the radar's capability to detect passive targets that represent unintended users. The simulation results show that the unintended user's power is suppressed below -135 dBm, while an additional beamforming gain of roughly 2 dB is attained for the legitimate users.

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Figure 1. The radar-assisted beam selection framework. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Values of Ls and L˜ s w.r.t. N = Nx = Ny. the random variables δx and δy, we get φˆ = φ + δx and ϑˆ = ϑ + δy. Consequently, the total euclidean error of the estimated AoD becomes δ = q ( ˆφ − φ) 2 + (ϑˆ − ϑ) 2 = q δ 2 x + δ 2 y . (14) Various efficient closed-loop techniques have been pro￾posed for estimating the true AoD and hence the best beam by utilizing the received power values. However, for the sake of tracta… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. 3D distribution of beam indices across different [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Tracked UE positions and RSRP plots for the case of no nulling and for the case of nulling UE-2. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png]

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